Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Perennial herbs with branched stolons.

Stems:

Roots: Roots fibrous.

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Blades linear to linear-lanceolate, up to 15 cm long, 2-10 mm wide. Apex acute. Surfaces usually glaucous, stiff, flat or involute, glabrous or pilose toward base. Margins scabrous. Veins parallel.

Flowers: Spikes straight or slightly curved, 3-20 cm long, glaucous, glabrous, with internodes 3-7.5 mm long; spikelets 1-flowered, (8-)10-14 (-22) mm long, the terminal one up to 28 mm long, rachilla prolonged behind palea; second glume narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate or subulate, closely 8-12-nerved, smooth or minutely scaberulous, apex acute or acuminate, usually tipped with a rigid awn. Lemmas coriaceous, ovate or ovate-oblong, 4-5.5 mm long, minutely pubescent at base and scaberulous on upper 1/2, apex obtuse, pubescent; palea coriaceous, lanceolate to narrowly ovoid, ca. 5 mm long, 2-nerved, glabrous, apex acute, pubescent.

Fruit: Caryopsis pale brown; oblong to obovate; ca. 2 mm long; dorsally compressed.

Ploidy:

Habitat: Occurring on coastal sands above the high-water mark.

Elevation Range: